subject, but we have all seen areas that look like hell and we've all seen 

 areas that have good management and I think that by proper emphasis we 

 can have that. And I feel that we have to have it. Timber is renewable. 



Then we are doing very little to exploit one of our greatest 

 resources, hydro power. That goes on and on at a very low cost, 

 comparatively speaking. We must immediately have a crash program to 

 develop all the hydro power possible. That may mean on-and/or 

 off-stream storage reservoirs. We could easily, in the near future, 

 probably triple or quadruple our hydro power production. It is clean and 

 it is renewable. We must mine our coal and oil shale and build gasification 

 and electric generation plants. And there again, it seems to me that we 

 have to get with it and do it under our own resource management in the 

 state of Montana. I would hate to see too much federal intervention. I 

 think we can do the job in Montana, but if we delay too long I fear, like 

 many of the others do, that we are going to have intervention from the 

 federal government and the East's industry and requirements--requirements 

 that are mounting daily. 



But hydro power .. .well , let's see... I'm on oil and coal... but this can 

 all be done without defiling the environment. We have the laws, I think, 

 necessary for its protection. And of course we have to see and we have 

 to monitor the enforcement of these laws. I think we must stop the haras- 

 sment of industry and allow free enterprise to get to work and do the job 

 that needs to be done. It is a choice we have. We have the resources to 

 become independent of the OPEC nations and these resources will supply 

 our needs for some centuries to come if properly done. During this time 

 we can develop solar, geothermal, gasohol and renewable energy resources 

 and I am confident we will. All of these developments can be done within 

 the framework of environmentally acceptable terms, under present laws, i 

 don't have the answers, of course, to problems like they have in 

 Evanston, Wyoming. I know of one other problem. I know of a sawmill 

 down there that had to close up because they couldn't afford to hire labor 

 at the $10 an hour figure, but those are things that happen and we have 

 to be able to meet them. I don't know what you can do about those 

 things, except to be ready for them. We may not be able yet to say we 

 are one world, but I do feel strongly that we better be able to say and 

 that we are ready to say that we are one nation. In other words I still 

 believe that we've got to share our energy resources with the East because 

 we are dependent upon the East. We're all interdependent upon each 

 other and that's the one thing that I want to emphasize. And now if I 

 might be pardoned for borrowing a closing statement from a well-known 

 figure... the way I see it, that's the way it is. 



Thank you. 



